Japan plane fire LIVE: Hero Japan Airlines cabin crew lauded for 'incredible job' after evacuating 379 from hellish inferno in MINUTES

• The in-flight announcement system on the Japan Airlines passenger plane did not work during the evacuation, Japan Airlines said in a statement.
• Crewmembers, who have been praised for their swift response during the disaster, used megaphones to give instructions, JAL said.

• The captain who was the only person to escape the coast guard plane alive has been named as Genki Miyamoto, 39.
• He pulled himself from the wreckage of the Bombardier Dash-8 before calling for assistance, according to reports.
• 'The aircraft exploded on the runway. I escaped. The [condition of the] other crew members is unknown,' he said, according to the coast guard.
• The crewmembers who died in the collision with a Japan Airlines passenger plane were aged between 27 and 56, it added.

Japan Airlines has released a statement in which it paid tribute to the five coast guard members who were killed in the collision.

'Our thoughts and prayers are with the deceased members of the Japan Coastguard," the statement said.

JAL also promised 'full cooperation in the investigation of this unfortunate event'.

'We would like to extend our sincerest apologies for the distress and inconvenience caused to our passengers, their families, and all those affected by this incident,' the airline added.

Airbus has promised to send a team of experts to Tokyo to assist authorities investigating the deadly plane collision involving one of their aircrafts.

They said in a statement posted on X: 'The aircraft involved in the accident, registered under the number JA13XJ, was MSN 538, delivered to Japan Airlines from the production line on 10 November 2021. It was powered by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines.

'In line with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annex 13 recommendations, Airbus will provide technical assistance to the Bureau d’Enquêtes et d’Analyses (BEA) of France and to the Japan Transport Safety Board (JTSB) in charge of the investigation.

'For this purpose, Airbus is presently dispatching a team of specialists to assist the Authorities.'

Japan's public broadcaster NHK is now reporting that 14 people from the Japan Airlines flight suffered minor injuries, citing fire officials.

Earlier the Tokyo Fire Department said that 17 passengers were injured.

This is the terrifying moment passengers started panicking onboard the Japan Airlines flight.

Children can be heard screaming as the plane shakes violently and smoke fills the cabin.

When passengers look outside the window, all the see is the eerie orange glow from the fire about to consume the aircraft.

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Video footage and images shared on social media showed passengers shouting inside the plane's smoke-filled cabin and running across the tarmac after escaping via an evacuation slide.

Despite the conditions inside the aircraft, the crew members remained calm and successfully evacuated all 379 passengers onboard the plane.

'The cabin crew must have done an excellent job... It was a miracle that all the passengers got off,' said Paul Hayes, director of air safety at UK-based aviation consultancy Ascend by Cirium.

• A Japan Airlines flight landed and collided with a coastguard aircraft getting ready to depart
• All 379 people on Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 got out safely before the plane was engulfed in flames
• Five of six coast guard aircraft crew confirmed dead after the collision
• Sixth crew member, the pilot, escaped the plane with serious injuries

The fatal incident took place when the Japan Airlines flight landed on one of the airport's four runways where the coastguard aircraft was getting ready to depart, the head of the Transport Ministry Civil Aviation Bureau said.

The coastguard pilot reported to his base that his aircraft went up in flames after colliding with the commercial plane, Sky News reported.

Transport safety officials are now investigating communication between aviation control officials and the two aircraft.

All 379 people on Japan Airlines flight JAL-516 got out safely before the plane was engulfed in flames, transport minister Tetsuo Saito confirmed.

The pilot of the coast guard plane escaped but the five crew members died, Mr Saito said.

A passenger who was on the terrifying Japan Airlines flight described the moment the plane collided with another aircraft.

They said: 'I felt a boom like we had hit something and jerked upward the moment we landed,' the unnamed passenger told Kyodo news agency.

'I saw sparks outside the window and the cabin filled with gas and smoke.'

The airport - also known as Tokyo international airport - had temporarily paused its operations following a fatal collision.

Three runaways have now been reopened, a Japanese ministry official said.

Japan Airlines' rival ANA previously said it had cancelled 110 domestic flights departing and landing at Haneda for the reaminder of thr day.

New photos show firefighters carefully inspecting the wreckage of the jet plane that crashed and caught fire at Tokyo international airport.

The passenger plane collided with a Japanese coast guard aircraft and burst into flames at the airport on Tuesday, officials said.

Transport Minister for Japan Tetsuo Saito said: 'Japan's airlines informed Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau that 379 people including 367 passengers and 12 crew members had been safely evacuated.

'Regarding the Coast Guard plane, one captain was evacuated but 5 other crew members were confirmed dead.'

Japanese airlines are due to hold a conference later today after a plane crashed at Tokyo international airport.

While the 379 passengers onboard the Japanese Airlines flight were rescued, five of the six coast guard crew members died.

Japan's minister for transport gave a news conference giving details of what happened at Tokyo Haneda Airport.

'Japan Airlines informed Japan’s Civil Aviation Bureau that 379 people, including 367 passengers and 12 crew members, had been safely evacuated,' Tetsuo Saito says.

'Regarding the coastguard plane, one captain was evacuated but five other crew members were confirmed dead.'

According to Reuters, the minister said it is hoped Haneda's runways could open 'by tomorrow, or even within today'.

Footage shows the devastating aftermath of the plane explosion as several firetrucks surround the burnt out wreck.

White smoke is still rising from the remains of Japanese Airlines jet while firefighters walk around it to assess the damage.

Two passengers spoke about their horrifying ordeal onboard the burning JAL plane.

'Smoke began to fill the plane, and I thought, "this could be really bad",' an adult male passenger told reporters at the airport.

'An announcement said doors in the back and middle could not be opened. So everyone disembarked from the front,' he said.

A female passenger said it had been dark on board as the fire intensified after landing.

'It was getting hot inside the plane, and I thought, to be honest, I would not survive,' she said in comments shown on broadcaster NHK.

Our new map shows in detail what led to the plane inferno in Tokyo today that saw an airliner collide with a coast guard aircraft.

While the 379 passengers onboard the Japanese Airlines flight were rescued, five of the six coast guard crew members died.

Rahm Emanuel, the US Ambassador to Japan, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: 'As we await more information, we commend the professionalism of the flight attendants, crew, and emergency responders who successfully evacuated and saved the lives of all 367 passengers on the JAL flight.'

This is the shocking moment passengers on the Japan Airlines flight escape the plane via inflatable slides.

They can be seen running past the burning engine shortly before it explodes.

Coastguard flight MA-722 aircraft, a Bombardier Dash-8 (like the one pictured below), collided with Japan Airlines flight 516 - a much larger Airbus A-350 - on runway C at Haneda.

Five people aboard a coastguard aircraft were killed when their plane collided with a Japan Airlines passenger jet coming in to land at Tokyo's Haneda International Airport, with only one crewmember managing to escape with severe injuries, Japanese police reported.

The coast guard has now confirmed that its flight MA-722 aircraft smashed into Japan Airlines flight 516 on runway C at Haneda, with both planes immediately erupting into flames.

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Prof Graham Braithwaite, director of transport systems at British Cranfield University, has praised the cabin crew and pilots onboard the Japan Airlines Flight 516.

'The evacuation has been successful and it is a reminder how much has gone into training cabin crew,' Prof Braithwaite told the BBC as he praised the airline and crew.

'Their focus is on safety. They are the last people to evacuate the airplane and on face value, it looks like they have done an incredible job.'

This is the moment a large airliner carrying 379 passengers touched down as smoke filled the cabin at an airport near Tokyo, after it crashed into a coastguard plane as it came into land.

The Japan Airlines jet was engulfed in a raging inferno as it sat on the runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo, today, with gouts of flame seen pouring out of the passenger windows.

New footage taken from inside the plane shows passengers panicking as smoke fills the cabin. Several can be seen with masks and rags over their mouth in an effort to limit the amount of smoke they inhale, while others can be heard crying out in fear.

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has reacted to the Tokyo airport fire on social media.

His office wrote on X that Kishida would ensure that officials 'quickly ascertain the damage situation'.

The Prime Minister would also 'strive to provide appropriate information to the public'.

Above all, Kishida instructed to 'make every effort to rescue victims of the disaster'.

Here is our map showing the flight path of the Japan Airlines jet that caught fire at Haneda Airport after colliding with a coast guard plane.

Flight 516 departed from New Chitose airport near the city of Sapporo at 4pm local time (7am UK time).

It touched down in Tokyo after the 517-mile journey from Sapporo at 5.47pm local time (8.47 UK time), according to Flightradar.

Miraculously, the airline said all 379 passengers onboard were successfully evacuated from the aircraft.

Five of the six crew members onboard the coast guard plane are now confirmed dead, Japanese broadcaster NHK reports.

Swede Anton Deibe, 17, who was a passenger on the Japan Airlines plane, told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that 'the entire cabin was filled with smoke within a few minutes.

'We threw ourselves down on the floor. Then the emergency doors were opened and we threw ourselves at them.

'The smoke in the cabin stung like hell. It was a hell.'

Deibe, who was travelling with his parents and sister, added: 'We have no idea where we are going so we just run out into the field. It was chaos.'

A passenger onboard the Japan Airlines jet that collided with a coast guard plane recorded terrifying footage.

A video shows the moment the burning plane touched down on the tarmac as orange smoke surrounds the aircraft.

In another clip passengers can be seen looking around the plane in panic as the cabin fills with smoke.

Dramatic pictures are continuing to emerge showing the scale of the jet plane inferno at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan.

Images (see below) show black smoke billowing out from the aircraft as firefighters try to put out the blaze.

All 379 passengers and crews of JAL airplane have been evacuated from the airplane while 5 members of JCG are unaccounted for.

The Japanese Coast Guard has confirmed that the collision involved one of its planes that was headed to Niigata airport on Japan's west coast to deliver aid to those caught up in the powerful earthquake.

A spokesperson at Japan Airlines, the other plane involved, said its aircraft had departed from Shin-Chitose airport on the northern island of Hokkaido.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida instructed relevant agencies to coordinate to assess the damage swiftly and provide information to the public, according to his office.

Haneda has closed all runways following the incident, a spokesperson for the airport said.

A large airliner carrying 379 passengers exploded today at an airport near Tokyo after colliding with a coastguard plane as it came into land, Japanese media reported.

A Japan Airlines spokesperson reportedly told NHK that all 379 passengers aboard the aircraft at the time of the explosion were successfully evacuated from the stricken plane.

There has been no official confirmation of casualties or injured, but a successful evacuation of all passengers and crew would be a truly miraculous feat given the blaze completely gutted the plane and melted through huge chunks of its bodywork.

Fire crews were deployed to the scene immediately, with footage from Japanese broadcaster NHK showing how firefighters were desperately trying to extinguish the flames with multiple hoses.

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This is the terrifying moment a Japanese Airline jet is engulfed in a raging inferno as it sits on the runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo.

Flames can be seen pouring out of the passenger windows.

One horrific clip showed the flames licking from the airliner's windows and doors as smouldering debris fell from the fuselage onto the tarmac, while another showed passengers sprinting along the runway to escape the blaze.

If you are just joining us now, here is a recap of what we know so far:

• Japan airlines jet collided with a coastguard plane as it came into land
• Shocking footage showed airliner engulfed in raging inferno on runway at Haneda Airport, in Ota City, Tokyo
• Miraculously all 379 passengers on the airliner were successfully evacuated
• Five crew members on the coastguard plane are reportedly unaccounted for
• There has been no official confirmation of casualties or injured

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